Zoom Lecture
October 6, 2022 Benjamin Madley presents ‘American Genocide’ An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873.
Zoom lecture at 7 pm
Read MoreNorthWestern Pacific Railroad in the Valley of the Moon
Take a trip from San Francisco ferry building to Glen Ellen from and how the resorts in the Valley were served by the railroad, through railroad abandonment and heavy freight…
Read More1919 – 1933 Prohibition in Sonoma and California Zoom Lecture
The Volstead National Prohibition Act was passed by the government in 1919, taking away Americans’ right to drink. It arguably remains one of the most devastating experiments in our country’s…
Read MoreMarie Duggan discusses San Francisco Bay Area Borderlands Between Russian and Spanish Empires
Marie Christine Duggan has taught economics at Keene State College in New Hampshire for 20 years, after receiving a PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research in…
Read MoreKatherine Rinehart discusses The Sonoma County Archives: One of the Most Important and Endangered Repositories of Local History
The Sonoma County Archives: One of the Most Important and Endangered Repositories of Local History Join consulting historian Katherine J. Rinehart as she discusses the Sonoma County Archives, how it…
Read MoreRobin Lewis discusses The Padre Trail – the historic road from Sonoma to Napa used by Altimira and the Bear Flaggers
Check out Robin Lewis’s Blog site for more information https://naparedwoods.com/2017/03/20/the-padre-trail-part-1-the-first-padre-to-use-the-trail/
Read MorePeter Meyerhof presents Solomon Schocken Sonoma’s Pre-eminent Jewish Entrepreneur
Gordon H. Chang Zoom Lecture October 10, 2020
Email info@sonomavalleyhistory.org to register for Gordon Chang’s lecture Click Here to purchase the Ghosts of Gold Mountain from Readers Books
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